We went back to Casa Zoe's for breakfast after moving from the Kempinski Hotel back to the Gran Park Hotel for work tomorrow. We then went to visit the Nanshan Temple, and walked around a market area, a bit like Confucius Temple area in Nanjing with small shops and stalls.

We then took a lovely boat trip down the Grand Canal (which we have been on in Hangzhou also), stopping off at a hand-made brick museum. Another lovely day. ...

... area, we got a taxi out to the Lingshan Scenic Park area, with a large detour as the roads were blocked with military for some reason, and arrived at the park about midday. We could see the large bronze Buddha statue (the largest bronze Buddha statue in the world at 88m) in the distance, and followed the path walking past the Grand Screen Wall; the Altar of Buddha's Footprints; Nine Dragons Bathing Sakyamuni; Buddha's ...

By the time we got into Shanghai it was about 7pm but we still had to ride 40minutes on the subway back to our hostel, which was definitely not as good as the bullet train as we were all really tired and hungry. Safe to say when we finally stepped off the subway I was very happy to no be on a train anymore.

As it was Katrin and I’s last night in Shanghai, we decided to go out for dinner despite all being ...

... in the roof extension of an old style building that served up some questionable dim sum. From here we caught a taxi to the main shopping street in Suzhou and got very overexcited about Marks and Spencer! I was dissuaded from buying an Easter egg as they were pretty overpriced so it looks like I’ll have to find an alternative source of Easter chocolate. A side street took us past several stalls selling very cheap things – I bought a new watch for 10￥ as mine ...